Future Event
Friday, 5 December 2008, 3 p.m.
Mark Conway’s book of poetry Any Holy City won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year’s PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Foundations, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Conway is also the poetry editor of Post Road.
Past Event
Monday, 13 October 2008, 7 p.m.
J.W. Marshall and Christine Deaval, co-owners of Seattle’s Open Books, one of only two all-poetry bookstores in the nation, will read from their original works on Monday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.
Marshall is the author of “Meaning A Cloud,” published by Oberlin College Press in 2008, the result of his winning the 2007 Field Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Cranky, Field, Golden Handcuffs Review, LitRag, Poetry, and other magazines.
Deavel is the author of “Box of Little Spruce,” a chapbook published in 2005 by LitRag Press. Her work has appeared in Fence, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Iowa Review, Volt, and other magazines. In 2009, her piece “Of the Bird’s Wing There Are Tracts of Feathers” will be included in an anthology of artists and writers, to be published by the University of Washington Press.
Past Event
5 June through 13 July 2008
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections is proud to host the final exhibition of a poetry broadside collection assembled by the Friends of William Stafford. This is also the first of a series of events to celebrate the recent gift of the William Stafford Archives to the College by the Stafford Family.
Featured printers and publishers include Karla Elling of Mummy Mountain Press, Sandy Tilcock of lone goose press, John Laursen of Press-22, Carlos Reyes of Trask House Books, Vi Gale’s Prescott Street Press, and Wang Hui-Ming.
Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner, and Paul Merchant of Lewis & Clark College Special Collections are the curators of the exhibit. For further information, please contact Doug Erickson, Head of Special Collections, 503-768-7254, dme@lclark.edu
This exhibit is supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Past Event
Friday, 4 April 2008, 3 p.m.
Circanian, Joanna Klink’s second book, offers beautifully crafted poems that are set in a variety of different physical and emotional locations, and that take as their guiding vision circadian clocks.
Past Event
Monday, 31 March 2008, 7 p.m.
Blanford Parker’s main interests are poetry, theories of poetry, prosody, and the history of ideas with a concern for philosophy and theology.
Past Event
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 7 p.m.
Herman Asarnow—poet, essayist, and translator— is the author of Glass-Bottom Boat (Higganum Hill Books, 2007), a collection of his recent poetry.
Past Event
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 7 p.m.
Sam Witt will read from his new book, Sunflower Brother, and also from his first book, Everlasting Quail. Additionally, he will read from a new manuscript on which he is working.
Past Event
Saturday, 9 February 2008
A symposium including readings, lectures, and discussions, asking the question: “What’s the use of poetry in the midst of the anxiety and promise of our times?”
